tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post8980982426075524320..comments2024-03-28T21:52:52.100-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Picture Of Lost Civilization In The Amazon EmergingAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-44199729911856033282012-01-20T17:56:08.323-07:002012-01-20T17:56:08.323-07:00I've did a lengthly post at my non-science blo...I've did a lengthly post at my non-science blog (Wash Park Prophet) before I split Dispatches From Turtle Island off as a separate blog on a paper he did on the Altaic languages, which made some interesting points but was poorly done and greatly overstated his conclusions. I think I've done a post somewhere since then on another one of his papers that was rather bad and have seen some writings about his recent work.<br /><br />He has basically two problems. One is that he is too wedded to some over the top ideas from the Russian school of linguistics which has ill supported ideas like the Nostradic and Sino-Caucasian language families. The other is that his application of mathematical models to linguistics fails to account for enough assumptions and linguistic details that we know from other sources. I can sympathize with the sentiment he has of wanting to do the work, but his lack of knowledge base in linguistics shows.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-14532436189011344712012-01-17T10:25:00.697-07:002012-01-17T10:25:00.697-07:00I like your anthropology links too :-)
Have you ...I like your anthropology links too :-) <br /><br />Have you done, or plan to do, some series about Gell-Mann institution work on language evolution?Alejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.com